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Chamber music competition winners perform concert

April 22, 2014

The Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music features the winners of the annual chamber music competition in a concert on Tuesday, May 6. This...

Yale Opera presents a comic retelling of the Cinderella story

April 22, 2014

The Yale School of Music and Yale Opera present a new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola May 2–3. In this new production, directed by Ted Huffman, the...

Environmental dollars and sense: Q&A with Robert O. Mendelsohn

April 21, 2014

For more than four decades, Robert O. Mendelsohn, an environmental economist, has researched the benefit of protecting the Earth’s environment.

Yale School of Art presents works by Turner Prize nominee Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

April 17, 2014

A new exhibition at the Yale School of Art presents 12 works by London-based artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a 2013 Turner Prize nominee best known for her...

Student Spotlight: Internship in D.C. will prepare Dinee Dorame to advocate for Indigenous women

April 16, 2014

Yale junior Dinee Dorame, a member of the Navajo Nation and Tábaahá (Edge of Water clan) born for Naakaii Dine'é (Mexican people), hopes one day to help...

Creative Classroom: Seminar immerses freshmen in many things blue

April 16, 2014

As much as he learns in his freshmen art seminar about the color blue, Yale student Benson May says, “there is still much more to discover about it.”

Yale affiliates named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows

April 14, 2014

Two Yale faculty members — Jun Korenaga and Steven Pincus — and 10 alumni have been named 2014 Guggenheim Fellows “on the basis of prior achievement and...

Commentary: Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Ambition

April 11, 2014

Yale English Professor David Bromwich explores the echoes of Shakespeare in Abraham Lincoln's thoughts on ambition.

Yale School of Music Teaching Artist of the Week: Isabel Lepanto Gleicher

April 11, 2014

Not all teaching artists can say that they have experienced both sides of the student/teaching artist relationship. But Isabel Lepanto Gleicher ’14 M.M. says...

Small in size but large in scope: Dance Studies at Yale

April 11, 2014

When theater studies major Aren Vastola ’14 found himself without a space to stage a formal production for his senior project, he turned “lemons into...